It’s crazy how big the political divide has gotten that I wish Democrats were as “bad” as Republican fear mongering portrays them.

What exactly is Snap and why does everyone hate it?

When Trump heard that the president is “the leader of the free world”, he took it literally and thinks he’s the ruler of the world.

He’s evil. I honestly can’t think of a single policy he has supported that wasn’t cruel or stupid.

I’m not very familiar with LLMs. How do you install a local copy?

I was working part time as a software developer while a grad student and was assigned under a full time employee. We were the only ones working on that project. I came back after the Christmas break to be informed I was the new project lead because the full time employee i was working under got fired after he sexually assaulted one of the female employees after getting drunk at the company Christmas party.

I decided to go with an immutable distro for my first Linux gaming PC because immutable distros are as idiot proof as you can get. I like that I can’t really mess anything up and if something does break, I can rollback to a previous version. I’m sure there are ways to setup rollback for other distros but I’m not a Linux person so I don’t really know what I’m doing and letting Bazzite handle everything for me made it a perfect fit.

Everything has been smooth sailing with Bazzite so far.

The problem with visiting Canada is that ICE might throw me into the gulag when I try to return.

It doesn’t even look that bad. I don’t know what he’s complaining about

Looks like the start of an indie horror game.

Large corporations would be able to afford to make deals with ISPs to give them preferential treatment so that access to their sites are faster than others. This is good for social media sites whose whole business model is monetizing their users. Things like the Fediverse would be hit especially hard because of its distributed nature.

ISPs can offer further tiers of plans making it more expensive to access websites that don’t belong to major corporations bribing the ISPs. All the corporations win in this scheme while furthering the enshittification of the Internet.

Want to use Linux? Accessing those sites is difficult and expensive so why not use Windows instead

Want to use Mastodon? Sorry but that sites super slow so how about Twitter instead.

Want to use end to end encrypted email? Too bad. The connection their servers are super spotty. Better use Gmail or Yahoo for email like everyone else.

The bad sites are likely the ones to not require a fee to access. It would be smaller sites and the Fediverse that would become more difficult and expensive to access.

Why pay to access Mastodon or Lemmy when you can use Twitter and Reddit for “free”. It’s a scheme that would benefit large corporations over smaller independent services.

I’ve always felt that the Fediverse was perfect for governments and businesses since it disconnects them from a third party allowing them to manage their own distribution of information.

Exactly what I was thinking. Changing the name on a Tesla would work on me because I can’t tell cars apart but the Cybertruck is obviously a Cybertruck. I can’t think of any other car manufacturer that has ever made a car as distinctively ugly as the Cybertruck.

One of my favorite quotes is “A Republican would eat shit if they thought a liberal would have to smell their breath.”

I read your comment while a streamer just said the exact same thing. No politics on his stream because entertainment is to relax and not get stressed out.

This is real?!? When I first heard about this, I thought it was a joke.

Isn’t that essentially the plot to The Langoliers?

I need you to rephrase all news to make it not so depressing.

How about they publicly warn about it as well as follow up with some criminal charges. We have systems in place to stop all of this but it requires the officials to grow a spine and actually use them.